PDF Impress

PDF Impress is an intuitive application that provides rich settings for creating PDF files from numerous formats, such as DWG, BMP, PPTX, XLS, HTM and CSV. It sports other handy tools as well, such as applying watermarks and inserting pages.

The main application window takes a cue from Windows 8 and implements the flat look with easily accessible buttons. You can use the Explorer-based folder structure to quickly locate files for processing. Batch mode is available, so you can convert multiple items at a time.

Once the task is done, you might be interested in adding text watermarks, image stamps and file attachments, inserting, rotating, removing or extracting pages, as well as editing document information (title, author, subject, keywords). These operations are carried out in a separate window while previewing modifications.

You can alter the page display, layout and zoom level, optimize PDFs to prepare them for website publishing (e.g. compress page content, remove all JavaScript, remove annotations), encrypt the documents with a password and set permissions (e.g. allow printing and editing), as well as add a digital signature.

It is possible to create, manage and edit existing profiles (e.g. high quality print, smallest file size, confidential, archive), organize tasks into "watchers", customize the background theme, enable debug logs, as well as assign a profile to the quick conversion method (the most used one).

The application has a fair response time and finishes a job rapidly, delivering quality documents. It uses a pretty high amount of RAM to do so, while maintaining the CPU level low. Several errors popped up throughout our tests, every time we attempted to use the extra tools for files before conversion (whether they were PDFs or otherwise).

PDF Impress is a comprehensive software utility for converting and processing PDF documents, putting rich features at user's disposal.